129 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

129 Marchmont Road in Edinburgh is a four-storey corner tenement building designed by John C Hay in 1882, showcasing a Scottish 17th century style. The structure features a corner tower and shops on the ground floor, constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a cornice above the shops, string courses above the first and second floors, crowstepped gables, and long and short work around the window margins, along with chamfered reveals.

The west elevation, facing Marchmont Road, consists of six bays, including the corner tower bay. The shop fronts are supported by painted masonry piers. Above the ground floor, the corner bay has bipartite windows that break the eaves at the third floor, topped with a corniced conical roof covered in fishscale slates and featuring a cast-iron weathervane finial. The remaining bays have single windows, with a chamfered angle bay on the outer left that also breaks the eaves at the third floor, culminating in a pedimented dormer head with a stone finial. A similar bay is found on the inner left, while the two bays on the inner right break the eaves at the third floor in a gable head with a square tablet inset. The last bay breaks the eaves at the third floor in a round-arched pedimented dormer head with a finial.

The south elevation, facing Beauford Road, has five bays with painted masonry piers supporting the shop fronts. The central bay features bipartite windows that break the eaves at the third floor, leading to a pedimented dormer head with a roundel inset. The outer left and right bays are corbelled and slightly advanced above the first floor, breaking the eaves at the third floor in gable heads with square tablets inset. Additionally, there is a square blank tablet with a hoodmould above the first floor of the two outer right bays.

The building is fitted with plate glass sash and case windows, topped by a grey slate roof with lead flashing. It includes corniced mutual and gablehead stacks, coped and rendered mutual and wallhead stacks, moulded octagonal cans, and moulded eaves guttering, with some original rainwater goods still in place.